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Sigrid Nunez

Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

November 4, 2025, 5:00 PM

Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. A collection of her short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, will be published in 2026. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Nunez’s other honors include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Her work has been translated into more than 35 languages. The Friend has been adapted for film by directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee (2024). What Are You Going Through has been adapted for a film under the title The Room Next Door (2024), directed by Pedro Almodóvar.